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Richard Forno on Cyber Attacks on State Facilities

Richard Forno was interviewed by the Associated Press about cyber attacks on the rise in Utah. “Utah state officials have seen what they describe as a sharp uptick in attempts to hack into...

Posted: February 23, 2015, 4:39 PM

Dave Marcotte, School of Public Policy, in The Conversation

As many states across the country have dealt with significant snowfall over the last two months, school districts have been forced to shut down for several days. School of Public Policy professor...

Posted: February 20, 2015, 4:50 PM

Policy Pioneer

Renato “Renny” DiPentima, Ph.D. ’84,  policy sciences, had a distinguished career in the Social Security Administration, where he rose to the rank of deputy commissioner and served on numerous...

Posted: February 18, 2015, 5:00 PM

Tanguy Ringoir Wins Grandmaster Title

Tanguy Ringoir ’18 financial economics, recently won the Grandmaster Norm Invitational held at the Chinggis Chess Club, Burlingame, Calif. The Grandmaster (GM) title is the highest title a chess...

Posted: February 17, 2015, 8:57 PM

Hilltop Researchers in the Journal of Pediatrics

Hilltop Senior Research Analyst Michael T. Abrams, MPH, and Policy Analyst Carl H. Mueller, MS, are co-authors of a new study published in the Journal of Pediatrics titled “Transcranial Doppler...

Posted: February 17, 2015, 8:37 PM

Biology and Batteries

In the quest to make a better battery Evgenia Barannikova, a graduate student at UMBC in the department of chemistry and biochemistry, has isolated a peptide, a small sequence of amino acids,...

Posted: February 17, 2015, 8:23 PM

Call for Class Notes

Happy belated New Year, alumni! We know that you are all out in the world making profound and positive differences, and as the new year rolls along, we would love to hear about what you’ve been...

Posted: February 17, 2015, 4:00 PM